Merging FlashHelp Projects?

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December 18, 2006
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I dreamed that I could do this, didn't I?

Is there an "easy" way to merge FlashHelp projects? I've got one project that I need to insert into two other projects.

I know I can import the files and hard code the TOC - but that's not going to work for a long term solution - I'm going to be doing that constantly.

Tell me I'm just missing the answer in the help files... Is there a plug in solution? Anything??? Otherwise I'm going to end up with the same set of files in multiple help systems - and that will be a nightmare, too.

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Correct answer RoboWizard

Hi PixelWriter

Currently there is no way to merge FlashHelp files in the way you can merge WebHelp or compiled .CHM files.

Any reason WebHelp wouldn't do in this situation?

Cheers... Rick

RoboWizardCorrect answer

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Hi PixelWriter

Currently there is no way to merge FlashHelp files in the way you can merge WebHelp or compiled .CHM files.

Any reason WebHelp wouldn't do in this situation?

Cheers... Rick

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PixelWriterAuthor

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Thanks Rick!

I figured I was dreaming.

I'm not sure if webhelp would work or not. We wrote the projects to run as flash and we need to run flash movies in the projects as well.

I know sometimes our helps are run across a network, so we had to abandon the chm files. I haven't really explored the webhelp options too much.

Time to become research girl and do a little digging!

Thanks again for confirming my suspicions.

Crystal

RoboWizard

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Hi Crystal

WebHelp and FlashHelp are basically like the mythological Janus. They are simply two different faces on the same information. The only real difference (aside from the fact you can merge one but not the other) is that the TOC, Index and Search are presented using Flash components. This has no bearing on whether you can include Flash movies within your content. Flash movies should work with WebHelp equally as well as they work with FlashHelp.

Cheers... Rick

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